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 | From Erik Wander, your About Books & Literature Editor So it's summer, right? Memorial Day is, after all, widely considered the season's "unofficial" start. And while summer may still officially be nearly another month away, it's not too early to start putting together some tentative reading lists for your kids and for yourself ... at least unofficial ones. Nothing needs to be set in stone at this point, but can book lovers ever truly be prepared for summer without at least some idea of what they're going to be reading for the next few months? | |
How to Make a Summer Reading List
It's easy, at least according to our Classic Literature Guide: start with what you might have to read (say, for school in the fall?), think about what you'll be doing during the summer or where you might (or might not) be going, consider how much time you're likely to have on your hands and take it from there. Classics you've always wanted to read but have never gotten around to? Authors you've only recently discovered and now want to go back and read some of their "old stuff?" Put 'em on the list!
| This Year's Top Reading Lists for Children, Teens
Do you want to keep your elementary, middle or even high schoolers reading all summer? Our Children's Books Guide thinks you can. She runs down her picks for the top 10 summer reading lists of 2013. The lists, compiled by librarians, school districts and organizations dedicated to children's reading, include books for young children through young adults and are mostly organized by grade level. Here you'll find recommended fiction and nonfiction, classics and new releases. Check out these summer reading resources for kids.
| Top 10 Reads from High School Summer Lists
"These books are so entertaining they will make you wonder why you ever dreaded summer reading assignments," writes our Bestsellers Guide of this list that includes such essentials as The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1984 by George Orwell, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and more. Catch up on the reading you may have "missed" during the summers of your youth.
| 'Farm City' Among Oprah's Past Summer Picks
In a July 2009 blog post, our Contemporary Literature Guide mentioned Oprah's annual summer reading list, for many, an indispensible resource in planning what they'll read from June through Labor Day weekend. At the time, our Guide said he would "likely" try three from Oprah's list that year. Well, we know he read at least one, Farm City by Novella Carpenter, because he referred to it in a subsequent post about summer reading, which for him also included the "dense" but seemingly rewarding Infinite Jest. Find out what he thought about one of Oprah's recommendations for the summer of 2009.
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